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I have also just ordered Kafka on the Shore, Murrin, after seeing your post that it was awarded with a World Fantasy Award. :)
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I've been reading "Red Prophet" by Orson Scott Card. Since there's a comic book of it out I wanted to see how close the adaptation was.
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Nine princes in Amber - Roger Zelazney

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Recluce wrote:I've been reading "Red Prophet" by Orson Scott Card. Since there's a comic book of it out I wanted to see how close the adaptation was.
And...?

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Lord of the Silent Kingdom (Instrumentalities of the Night Book II) by Glen Cook

The Serpent and the Rose by Kathleen Bryan (a pseudonym of Judith Tarr's)

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GildenFire and book 3 & 5 of the Gap series.

The only annoying thing is that I'm missing Bk 4 still, and since there is no way I'm not going to read book 5, I'll have to be spoiled with the outline of 4 after I finish 3, which I'm reading now.

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Gil galad wrote:Nine princes in Amber - Roger Zelazney

It is totally awesome :P
Ah, that's a good series there... although I never read the second block of five books, which is supposedly not as good as Corwin's adventures.
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Xar wrote:
Gil galad wrote:Nine princes in Amber - Roger Zelazney

It is totally awesome :P
Ah, that's a good series there... although I never read the second block of five books, which is supposedly not as good as Corwin's adventures.
I preferred the Corwin stories, but still enjoyed the second five. :)

I picked up A Taste of Magic, which is grand master Andre Norton's last story, finished up and polished up by an author named Jean Rabe.

Also a omnibus containing the three Diana Tregarde supernatural mystery stories by Mercedes Lackey. I have heard a lot of good things about the Diana Tregarde books, and am glad to finally get a chance to read them. :)
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Gave in and ordered the signed hardback The Year of Our War a while back, even though the store had finally raised it above cover price. It arrived today.

The Modern World is out April, so I'll have the full set of signed first editions on my shelf.
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It sorta seems strange to me that you can buy pre-signed copies of books. *shrug*

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Well, unless you live somewhere that gets a lot of authors on tours passing through (like a major city), it can be kind of hard to get a signed copy in person. Most of the authors don't even tour England, never mind somewhere I can get to.
(Course, I say that, but this particular author is english, and I haven't even checked what tours she's done...)
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:lol: Oh, I understand...but I thought that was sorta the point...the rarity value of a signed book.

Now the author just signs a few hundred, and those get sold for more. Sign of the times and all I guess. ;)

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The site I use sells them for cover price, actually. They must have been running out of copies of this one though, because after more than a year and a half the price finally went up (from £9.99 to £24.99... and wait a sec, it's sold out! Looks like it was the last one, heh).
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Evil for Evil by K.J. Parker
Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Flora Segunda by Ysabeau Wilce
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Christmas haul:
-Ken MacLeod, Learning the World
-Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
-Stepan Chapman, The Troika
-M. John Harrison, Nova Swing
-John Crowley, Little, Big

One more to come--the trouble with online shopping.
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Avatar wrote::lol: Oh, I understand...but I thought that was sorta the point...the rarity value of a signed book.

Now the author just signs a few hundred, and those get sold for more. Sign of the times and all I guess. ;)

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A bookstore chain (Borders) is headquartered near where I live. As a result, they have lot of author signings (though they are almost always at night when I cannot go) - but they always have the authors sign a few extra copies, and put them on the shelves for their customers - and at the same price as the unsigned books. :) I've picked up a lot of signed books that way. 8)
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